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No. 41 



ADDRESS 

OF 

W. A. LLOYD, 

LATE OF THE AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCES 
IN THE NEAR EAST. 



Delivered in the 

CENTRAL HALL, LIVERPOOL, 
JANUARY 8th, 1920. 



The Rt. Hon, The Lord Mayor of Liverpool 
in the Chair. 



THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE, 
43, ALDWYCH, W.C.2. 

ig20. 



THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE 

OFFICERS, COUNCIL and COIVIIVIITTEE for 1919. 

Presidents. 

Sir Francis Elliot, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O. 
His Excellency J. Gennadius, G.C.V.O. 

Vice-Presidents. 



Commander C. Bellairs, M.P. 
Commander, H. S. Cardale. 
John Dillon, M.P. 
Sir Arthur Evans, D.Litt.,P.S.A. 



G. A. Macmillan, Hon. DXitt. 

Ronald M'Neill, M.P. 

Sir John Sandys, Litt.D.,F.B.A. 

A. F. Whyte. 



Chairnfian. 

The Hon. W. Pember Reeves. 

Acting Chairman. 

R. M. Burrows, D.Litt. 



Council 



Professor A. M. Andreades. 
Mrs. Philip Baker. 

T. A. BURLUMI. 

D. J. Cassavetti. 
Rev. W. C. Compton. 
-*S. Delta. 
Mrs. Embiricos. 
Professor Ernest Gardner. 
Mrs. Lambrinudi. 
Dr. A. Manuel. 
L. M. Messinesi. 
Z. G. Michalinos. 
Professor J. L. Myres. 
A. Pallis. 



Miss M. Pallis. 
G. H. Perris. 

D. P. Petrocochino. 
Sir Frederick Pollock. 
Alex. Ralli. 

Mrs. Pember Reeves. 

E. M. Rodocanachi. 
Mrs. Sachs. 

A. G. Symonds. 
P. Teofani. 
Mrs. Vlasto. 
Sir C. Walston. 
Mrs. Watson-Taylor. 
G. B. Zochonis. 



* Chairman of the Athens Executive Committee, 
Together with the members of the Executive Committee. 

Executive Conrimittee. 



Chairman and 

Acting Chairman. 

Sir A. H. Crosfield, Bart. 

Lady Crosfield. 

N. EUMORFOPOULOS 

{Hon. Secretary). 
A. C. Ionides. 

■Q. Marchetti. 



John Mavrogordato 
Lady Meiklejohn. 
Prof. Gilbert Murray. 

Miss SCHILIZZI. 

Harold Spender. 
A. Zygouras 

{Hon. Treasurer). 



Office. 

43, Aldwych, W.C.2. Telephone : Central 2967. 

Bankers. 

The London County, Westminster & Parr's Bank, 
36, St. James Street, S.W.i. 



No. 41. ,7^ Lfo 



THE 

ANGLO^HELLENIC LEAGUE. 



ADDRESS OF W. A. LLOYD. 

My Lord Mayor, 

Ladies and Gentlemen, 

Demobilised from the Australian Imperial 
Forces at Cairo in February last, I have spent the 
interval in a systematic study of conditions in 
Turkey under the Armistice. Without hesitation 
I aihrm that those conditions are not only a 
disgrace to Turkey but to allegedly civilised 
Europe v^hich allows them to continue, I have 
come straight from Turkey with the object of 
rousing Europe to a sense of its responsibility 
in this matter. I stayed a few days in Paris 
interviewing prominent international politicians, 
with little or no practical result. Everywhere 
expressions of s^/mpathy, but everywhere a most 
damnable inertia, and a disinclination to translate 
words into deeds. 

One prominent international statesman, whose 
name is a household word, cynically told me that 
the only way to rouse Europe would be to bribe 
the Turk to massacre a few thousand French 
and English children along with their Armenian 
and Greek victims. I am reluctantly forced to 



the conclusion that nothing but the pressure of 
a' strong and well-informed public opinion will 
move the politicians to action. 

I refuse to believe that Christian chivalry died 
when Acre fell. While I do not believe that the 
Turkish problem is primarily a religious problem 
at all, whether Christian or Mohammedan, yet 
it must surely mean something that many of those 
who to-day are being massacred in Turkey are 
bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. For 
all of them the blessed Symbol of their faith 
is our Symbol too. Pitiable weakness calls to 
great strength. Our account with Turkey goes 
back not five, but five hundred years, and now is 
the time to settle it — not in any spirit of vindic- 
tiveness, but in a spirit of justice to all concerned. 

My personal knowledge of Turkey and the 
Turk goes back nearly a quarter of a century. 
I was present in Constantinople during the Arme- 
nian massacres in 1896-7. Only the other day 
at Aidin, in Asia Minor, I helped to gather the 
horribly mutilated bodies of men, women, and 
little children who had been barbarously done to 
death by Turkish troops for no other crime than 
that of being Christian. On that fateful May 
afternoon in 1453 when the last of the Imperial 
Palaeologi fell valiantly defending the city of the 
Caesars, it was an Oriental barbarian who sup- 
planted the Byzantine Power on the Bosphorus, 
and five hundred years have not altered him, 
unless it be for the worse. 

Oflicially, hostilities ceased in Turkey on the 
signing of the Armistice a year ago. Actually, 
there is to-day a well -equipped and well-organised 



Turkish army in the held, engaged in the syste- 
matic murder of the Christian population of the 
Empire, men, women, and children. 

Constantinople officially disclaims responsi- 
bility for the existence of this army, and professes 
to regret its activities which, it states, it is power- 
less to prevent. But Constantinople claims 
sovereignty over the territory occupied by 
Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his troops, and is, 
therefore morally and in international law legally 
responsible for the maintenance of public order. 
And the super-politicians in Paris, some of whom 
are not quite certain whether Cilicia is in Asia 
or Europe, are apparently just as impotent as 
the simulacrum of a Government on the shores 
of the Bosphorus. Paris, equally with Constanti- 
nople, must share responsibility for the regime 
of murder and outrage to-day in Turkey. 

It is imperative that the Turkish problem 
be faced immediately. Every day's delay affords 
opportunity for Kemal and his bandit army to 
strengthen their position, and further weakens 
the authority, already dangerously weak, of 
Constantinople. Kemal makes no secret of his 
intentions in the event of Constantinople signing 
a peace involving partition of the Empire. He 
proposes to ignore the Constantinople Govern- 
ment altogether, and seize the reins of power 
himself. 

He is quite capable of doing so. Even now 
Constantinople dare not send regular troops 
against him for the simple reason that they join 
forces with him. I myself have seen recently 
hundreds of officers and men in the uniform of 
the regular army with the insurgent forces. The 



Turk is not a particularly intellectual individual, 
but he is not altogether a fool, and he is well aware 
of the fact that he has friends in Europe, who are 
moving heaven and earth to save him from the 
consequences of his defeat. 



The Spiritual Prerogatives of 
THE Sultan. 

I come now to one of the most difficult and 
important aspects of the complicated Turkish 
problem. It is generally known that the Sultan 
is the Caliph, or spiritual head, of the Sunni, 
or Orthodox, Mohammedan world, comprising 
a majority of those who profess the faith of Islam. 
It is not generally known that he also claims the 
right, on historical grounds, to exercise certain 
spiritual functions in connection with the Christian 
Church which M^ere formerly the exclusive pre- 
rogatives of the Roman Emperors. The Eastern 
Holy Roman Empire included the four historic 
Patriarchates of Antioch, Alexandria, Constanti- 
nople and Jerusalem. The emperors exercised 
the right of confirmation of election of any Patri- 
arch, and this right has been claimed and exercised 
by successive Sultans from the fall of the Empire 
in the fifteenth century. It is something more 
than a merely historically interesting survival of 
mediaeval times. A Patriarch may be canonically 
elected, but unless he obtains confirmation of 
election by the Sultan he cannot exercise the 
functions of his office. It will come as a surprise 
to the average Christian and a shock to the 
orthodox Moslem, to be told that the Sultan 
confirms, or otherwise, the election of a Patriarch 



in the same words as his Christian predecessors, 
invoking the aid of the Holy Ghost, and speaking 
in the name of the Holy Trinity ! # 

His Beatitude Fotios, present Patriarch of Alex- 
andria and undoubtedly one of the greatest 
spiritual and intellectual forces in Christendom 
to-da\s was previously elected Patriarch of Jeru- 
salem. The Sultan refused to confirm the election, 
and banished His Beatitude to the fortress- 
monastery of Sinai, where he spent his enforced 
leisure learning Russian, so as to be better able 
to minister to the spiritual needs of the host of 
Russian pilgrims who flock to the Holy Land. 
It is interesting to note that the claim of the 
Sultan to confirm or veto the election of a Patri- 
arch is actually older than the assumption of the 
Caliphate. 

Turkish Sultans and 
The Caliphate. 

Selim I, of infamous memory, was' the first 
Turkish Sultan to claim the Caliphate, in 15 16, 
whereas the claim to interfere in the election of 
a Patriarch dates from the fall of Constantinople 
in 1453. The date of Mohammed's birth is un- 
certain, but it was somewhere about 570, and he 
died in 632. On the death of the great Law- 
giver of Arabia, and Mohammed was a truly 
great man, his followers quarrelled amongst 
themselves over the question of his successors, 
and that quarrel has divided the Islamic world 
up to the present day. The Sunni, or Orthodox 
Moslems, claim that Omar is the rightful successor 
of the Prophet, while the Shiah Moslems, mostly 
Persian, refuse to recognise the claims of Omar, 
and follow Ali. Both men were relations of 



Mohammed, and members of the Koreish, the 
tribe, or clan, to which Mohammed himself be- 
longed. Tlfe Shiah world has never recognised 
the claim of the Turkish Sultans to the Caliphate. 
That claim was never heard of until the year 
1516, when Selim I, acquired the title by purchase 
from the Fatimite Caliph of Egypt. I am not 
now concerned with the legality of that purchase 
in Islamic Canon Law, or whether the Fatimite 
Caliph was a free agent. My point is this, and 
it is very important, the earlier Sultans of Turkey 
did not claim the Caliphate, and even those to-day 
who acknowledge the Sultan as Caliph do not 
pretend even that there is any warrant either 
in the Koran or Canon Law for the Turkish claim. 
My own view is that the question is one for Moham- 
medans themselves to decide, and that it would 
be an unwarranted presumption for Christians 
to dictate to Moslems in the matter at all. 



The Case of India. 

The idea that we must keep one eye on India 
in all our dealings with Turkey, that we must 
condone the crimes of Turkey in deference to 
Indian Moslem opinion, is not only wholly mis- 
chievous, but is an insult to India. Speaking 
generally, Indian Moslems are far better educated 
than the Turks, and they are certainly intel- 
lectually superior. No intelligent Indian Moslem 
would wish to identify Islam with the crimes of 
Turkey, crimes that are only too well authenti- 
cated. Prominent Indian Moslems have recently 
pleaded in the Press for the magnanimous treat- 
ment of Turkey, mostly on religious grounds. 
As one to whom the idea of a " Carthaginian 



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Peace " in relation to any of our late enemies 
in the field is altogether hateful, I entirely 
sympathise with the idea that the peace settle- 
ment with Turkey should be tempered with mercy. 
But if Turkey is to escape punishment because 
she is Moslem, then Germany has a greater claim 
to lenienc}" because she is, nominally at any rate, 
Christian ! 



India showed a magnificent loyalty during the 
war. Indian Moslem troops fought side by side 
with the Christian troops of the Empire against 
the Turk, as did also the Moslem Arabs. 
Whatever former wars might have been, the 
present war was not in any sense a religious war. 
Those who are seeking to prove that there is an 
organised conspiracy to ruin Turkey because the 
Turk is a Moslem, in other words, that the issue 
is between Islam and Christianity, have a terrible 
responsibility to answer for. Whether the Turk 
remains in Constantinople or returns to Asia, 
the spiritual authority of the Sultan is not inter- 
fered with. The loss of the temporal power 
by the Popes has not lessened the spiritual 
authority of the Vatican. As a matter of fact, 
the long Pontificate of Leo XIII raised the spirit- 
ual authority of the Pope in the eyes of the whole 
Christian world to a very much higher level than 
it stood on the death of Pius IX. It is not too 
much to hope that, relieved of the elements of 
internal disorder that has brought about the 
ruin of the once proud Empire of Stileiman, the 
spiritual authority of the Sultan, as head of the 
Mohammedan world, will actually be greater 
than it is at present. 



Turkish Characteristics. 

I have alread\^ stated that it was an Oriental 
barbarian who supplanted the Byzantine Power 
on the Bosphorus. Admittedly the original 
barbarian possessed certain military virtues that 
compelled the admiration even of his enemies, 
In a sense, he was more chivalrous than most of 
his contemporaries, although his chivalry was 
curiously circumscribed by his Oriental mentality. 
His mental processes are not ours, and his stand- 
ards of right and wrong differ entirely from those 
of Europe. It cannot be too strongly emphasised 
that we shall never understand the Turk so long 
as we apply European standards of judgment to 
him. The Turk is the riiost amazing contra- 
diction in the world. He is kind to animals, 
but will ruthlessly murder little children, pro- 
vided they are not Turkish children. He will 
deny himself to feed his horse, but he treats his 
women as though they were lower than any 
animal. He is extraordinarily indolent. He 
does not build ' roads, or engage in commerce. 
Modern civilisation, and all that it connotes, is 
highly distasteful to him. Although incapable 
of governing others, he is easily governed, pro- 
vided his religious fanaticism is not roused by 
self-seeking mischief-makers like those two con- 
summate scoundrels Enver and Talaat. Any 
partition of the Empire is bound to leave a Turkish 
minority under Christian rule. But in Macedonia 
where a large number of Turks have come under 
Greek rule, there has been no trouble of an^^kind. 
The action of the Greek authorities in restoring 
the mosques in Macedonia to their rightful owners 
after they had been forcibly taken by the Bul- 
garians created a good impression amongst the 



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Moslem population. Macedonian Moslem notables 
have publicly expressed themselves as being 
highly satisfied with Greek rule. And the same 
thing will occur in Asia Minor in regard to the 
Moslem Minority there when the beautiful blue 
and white flag of Greece waves over these ancient 
Greek lands. 

Greeks in Asia Minor. 

Mention of Asia Minor brings me to the events 
which have occurred in that part of the Turkish 
Empire since the signing of the Armistice. While 
European Turkophiles are busy endeavouring 
to prove to an incredulous world that the Turk is 
not such a bad sort, that he did not, and could 
not possibly, do any of the barbarous things he 
is charged with doing, the Turk still goes on his 
old wa}^ murdering right and left, utterly regard- 
less of the consequences. To-day Armenia and 
Anatolia present a picture of misery with hardly 
a parallel in history. Since Turkey signed the 
Armistice the massacre of the Christians has 
continued uninterruptedly. 

On May the 14th last by order of the Paris 
Conference a Greek army was landed at Smyrna. 
The events connected with the landing of the Greek 
troops have been so distorted and misrepresented 
by interested persons in Asia Minor itself, as 
well as in Europe, that those not on the spot might 
well be excused for arriving at totally wrong 
ideas concerning what actualty took place. First 
of all, and to prevent misconception, let me say 
I was not present at the actual landing. I arrived 
in Smyrna from Syria a few days afterwards. 
But I had the advantage of conversing with Turks, 



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Armenians, Jews, as well as Greeks, who were 
actually present, and I carefully checked the 
various accounts I received. It is admitted 
that the Turks and not the Greeks were the 
first to open fire. 

The day before the landing the Turkish 
authorities had released all the Turkish prisoners, 
in the gaols. Many of these criminals were in 
possession of arms when captured afterwards. 
Nobody contends that it was the Greeks who 
armed these criminals. Colonel Zaferio, a thor- 
oughly capable and high-minded officer, was in 
charge of the Greek troops. His instructions to 
his men were that there was to be* no violence 
of any kind, and that the Occupation was to be 
carried out peaceably. Stress was laid particu- 
larly on the fact that not merely Turkish but 
certain European influences were at work to 
discredit the Greek Occupation, and that every 
Greek must make it a pcint of honour to do- 
nothing that might help the enemies of Greece. 
The Greek troops behaved splendidly and only 
after repeated provocation did the Greek com- 
mander reluctantly order his men to open fire. 
Then Hell was let loose. No Greek denies that 
certain of the Greek populaticn used the occasion 
to get some of their own back. But the same 
thing would have happened in any other large 
city. And Smyrna is a cosmopolitan city of 
about half a million of mutually antagonistic 
nationalities. The Greek authorities sternl}' sup- 
pressed any attempts at sabotage, and the dis- 
turbances lasted less than two hours. Speaking 
as a soldier, and an Australian, I emphatically 
contend that under similar circumstances in 



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Australia, not two hours, but two days, would 
not have sufficed to restore order. So much for 
the landing of the Greek troops in Smyrna. 

And now let me speak about the massacres of 
unarmed Greek villages in the interior of Asia 
Minor, of which I personal!}^ know something. The 
Greek troops occupied Aidin, in the hinterland 
of Smyrna, on May 30. On July i they were 
forced to evacuate the city owing to an enor- 
mously superior Turkisk attack. After receiving 
reinforcements from Smyrna, on July 3 the 
Greek arm}' marched on Aidin. The Turkish 
army did not wait to give battle, but retreated 
into the Turkish zone. When the Greek army 
evacuated Aidin the population of the city was, 
roughly, fifty-three thousand- — it is difficult to 
estimate the actual population of any Turkish 
town — Turkish statistics being unreliable : on 
the re-entry of the Greek troops the total popu- 
lation of Aidin was less than four thousand. 
About one third of the population consisted of 
Turks, the remainder were Greeks with about 
four or five thousand Armenians, and Jews. The 
whole of the Turkish population with the excep- 
tion of about four hundred accompanied the 
Turkish army on their retreat. The Turks took 
with them all the wealthy Greeks for purposes of 
ransom and all, or nearly all, the Greek women 
amounting to some thousands for purposes that 
can be better imagined than described. Better 
for them had they been murdered outright. 

When the Greek reinforcements were being 
sent to Aidin I made application at Smyrna, to 
General Nider for permission to accompany them. 
I stipulated that I should be free to converse 



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with Turks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as 
Greeks, and that my movements were not to 
be hampered in any way. General Nider, com- 
mander of the Greek Army of Occupation some- 
how always reminds me of General Gordon ; not 
the Gordon of Lord Cromer's "Egypt" who 
habitualty consulted the Book of Isaiah when 
confronted with a military difficulty, but the 
Gordon of the popular imagination, the Gordon 
•who personifies the best ideals of English chivalry. 
General Nider not only gave me the permission I 
asked for, but issued instructions that I was to be 
afforded every facility to see everything and to 
go everywhere throughout the Greek zone of 
occupation. Incidentally I visited also the Italian 
and Turkish zones. 

When I arrived at Aidin by the military train 
the sight was awful. The whole of the Greek 
quarter comprising two-thirds of the town was 
in ruins. The dead w^ere lying everywhere in 
thousands. 

European Turkophiles apologise for the Turk- 
ish atrocities at Aidin by saying that the town 
was destroyed by the bombardment of the Turk- 
ish and Greek troops. If that is so, it is curious 
that to-day the whole of the Turkish quarter is 
intact. Further, the dead consisted solely of 
Greeks. 

In company with a British naval officer, Lieu- 
tenant Hodder, I visited Ormourlou, a Greek 
village about eight miles from Aidin. Ormourlou 
is a second Cawnpore, When the Turkish army 
retired from Aidin they passed through Ormourlou 
and murdered the whole population, men, women, 
and children, and threw the bodies dowai the 



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town well. . ■ At the request of Lieutenant Hodder 
the Greek Commandant ordered his men to 
bring up the bodies for our inspection. I can 
only leave to the imagination the sight that met 
our eyes. The men who went down the well to 
bring up the bodies wore gas masks, and they, 
and all of us who viewed the horrible sight,, 
could not trust ourselves to speak owing to the 
choking sensation in our throats. Would that 
British Turkophiles had been present, for it would 
have cured them of their mistaken love for the- 
Turk. 

The Boy Scouts of Aidin. 

Nothing so angers a Turk as the sight of a Greek: 
boy in khaki. When the Greek troops occupied 
Smyrna and its hinterland, the Greeks organized 
Boy Scouts in the more important centres. At 
Aidin the Greek boys were enthusiastic to become 
scouts. When the Turks occupied Aidin after 
the Greek troops were forced to retire, they de- 
liberately sought out the Boy Scouts and murdered 
them all in cold blood. The full story of the 
Greek Boy Scouts of Aidin has yet to be written,, 
and it will prove to be an epic worthy of the 
heroic days of Greece. 

I took particular pains to ascertain exactly 
what occurred in connection with the murder of 
these children, for the}^ were little more than 
children, some of them being under fourteen 
years of age. I interviewed eye-witnesses, not 
only Greeks but Armenians and Jews. I possess 
the names of these young heroes, together with 
those of the Scout Masters, and members of the 
Scout Committee who v^^ere murdered with them. 
The Turkish soldiers asked each boy separately 



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to repeat a filthy phrase about Greece and M. 
Venizelos. Not one of them faltered in his 
duty, and all refused to comply with the Turkish 
demand. With tears streaming down their 
faces, these brave boys tried to sing the Greek 
National Hymn as they were being murdered. 
And yet to-day there are those who say that the 
spirit of old Greece is dead, and that the modern 
Greek has little of the old Greek blood in his veins, 
and nothing at all of the old Greek courage. 
Like other races, the modern Greek has not pre- 
served the purity of the original stock, although 
there are isolated communities where the pure 
type still survives. But there is little of Alfred's 
blood in the modern Englishman, yet the glory 
of Alfred and the splendour of the Alfred tra- 
dition is the valued possession of every Englishman 
to-day. 

Greek culture. Orthodox Christianity and the 
Graeco-Roman Imperial tradition made Asia Minor 
in the past the centre of a great civilisation. 
To-day in spite of repeated attempts by successive 
Sultans to Turkify the country by means of 
wholesale murder and the forcible deportation 
of the non-Turkish elements, Asia Minor is still 
predominantly Greek, and apparently will never 
be anything else. It is a significant fact that 
Hellenism is strongest to-day where it has suffered 
the most. Smyrna is more Greek than Athens, 
probably because Smyrna has suffered more. 

Hov/ long are the Turks to be allowed to murder 
the unarmed inhabitants of Christian villages 
without effective protest from a Europe that 
calls itself Christian ? On the slopes of Gal- 
lipoli, in the hot sands of the Arabian desert. 



in the Jordan Valley, our dead are numbered in 
thousands. They fell gloriously ^ — for what? 
Turkey is a beaten enemy. Are we to be robbed 
of the legitimate fruits of their sacrifice by the 
sinister efforts of European Turkophiles, and 
the moral cowardice of pettyfogging party poli- 
ticians ? Do these friends of the abominable 
Turk not realise that their campaign in favour 
of Turkey is an insult to our noble dead, and that 
they are traitors to the Allies ? I realise the 
gravity of the charge, but, without qualification, 
I assert that the European Turkophiles and the 
supine politicians are morally responsible in great 
measure for the continued murder of Christians 
in Turkey. 

Turkey To-morrow. 

Nothing is perfect in this world, and one despairs 
of an ideal solution of the Turkish problem. 
Sinister influences are at work in Europe, as 
well as in Turkey, to save the Turk and his Empire. 
Vested interests are working night and day to 
protect their pockets, using the most disgraceful 
means to accomplish their ends. Even govern- 
ments are more concerned about the '' Balance 
of Power " and real or imaginary gain to them- 
selves, than about justice to the millions who 
suffer under the Turk. But the conscience of 
the civilised world has long ago condemned the 
Turk and all his ways. The great war will not 
have been fought in vain, if one of its consequences 
is the liberation of the Christian population of 
Turkey. The Paris Conference is hailed as the 
precursor of a new world. That prolific cause 
of war, secret diplomacy, stands condemned 



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and '' Open Covenants, openly arrived at " is 
the new watchword in international diplomacy. 
The solution of the Turkish problem will prove 
a test case of the sincerity of those charged with 
the responsibility of creating this new and better 
world. The whole civilised world demands that 
the politicians in Paris shall do their duty fear- 
lessly, and settle once and for all the Turkish 
question. We can all hope that the new Turkey, 
although no longer a great Power, will in the 
time to come qualify for membership in the 
League of Nations, by setting its house in order, 
and acting as a civilised State. The Turk has 
no one to blame but himself for his present plight. 
If his troubles will but convince him that the way 
of the transgressor is hard, and that nations, 
like individuals, must eventually pay the penalty 
of wrong doing, then there is hope even for Turkey. 



Some Publications of the Anglo-'Hellenic League. 

The following pamphlets are obtainable at the Offices of the League, price 
3d. each or 2/- a dozen. 

4. The Inaugural Meeting of the Anglo-Hellenic League and a Letter by The Hom. 

W. P. Reeves on the ^Egean Islands and Epims. 

5. Northern Epirus in 1913, a lecture by Colonel A. M. Murray, C.B., M.V.O. 
7. Albania and Epirus, by The Hon. Wt P. Reeves. (.1913.) 

9. Books which we recommend to IVIembers who intend to visit Greece, by R. A. 

H. Bickford-Smith. 

10. Greece and the Epirus Risingo 

12. -' Letters; relating to Greek Macedonia and the Expulsion of Greeks from Turkey 
by A. Pallis and others. 

14. The New Greece, by R. M. Bursows, D.Litt. (reprinted by permission from The 

Quarterly Review). (1914.) 

15. Reprint of Review, by R. M. Burrows (from The Aihenseum), on the Report of 

Internationol Commission of the Carnegie Endowment for International 

- Peace into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan V/ars. 

16. Letter from a Correspondent in the Balkans — The Northern Epirotes, C. S. Butler. 

18. Annual General Meeting, February 19, 1915. Address by The Hon. W P. Reeves* 

and list of publications. 

19. El. Venizelos and English Public Opinion. Venizelos' Memoranda, etc. 

20. Trade between England and Greece. 

23. Greece and To-morrow, by Z. D. Fhrriman. (1915.) 

24. England in the Balkans, by John Mavrogordato. 

27. Annual General Meeting, June 15, 1916. Address by Dr. R. M. Burrows, etc« 

28. Speech of M. E. Venizelos to the People. (Greek and English.) 

30. Venizelos and his Feyow-Countrynien, by Prof. P. N. Ure. 

31. Address by M. A. Diomedes, Feb. 16, 1917. (Greek and English.) 

32. Italy and Greece ; Roll of Honour of the Hellenic Community in London, etc. 

33. Annual General Meeting, July 6, 1917. 

34. The Abdication of King Constantine, June 12, 1917. Articles by Dr. R. M. 

Burrows. 

35. England's Welcome to Venizelos at the Mansion House, November 16, 1917. 

36. The Anglo-Hellemc Alliance. Speeches at the Mansion House, Jun# 27, 1918, to 

celebrate the Anniversary of the Entry of Reunited Greece into the War. 

37. Annual General Meeting, July 11, 1916. 

38. Retirement of M. Gennadius. 

39. Annual General Meeting, June 20th, 1919. 

40. The Turks, Cardinal Newman and The Council of Ten, by the Very Revs 

Canon William Barry, D.D. 

EXTRA SERIES. 
An Appeal for the Liberation and Union of the Hellenic Race, by the Hon. W. P 

Reeves. (1918). 
Some English Philhellenes, by Z. D. F'erriman. 
I. Frank Abney Hastings. 
II. Sir Charles James Napier. 
III. Thomas Gordon, 
V. John Pitt Kennedy. 
VI Lord Guilford. 
vn. Sir Richard Church. 
A|Plea for a Civilized Epirus, by The Hon. W. P. Reeves. 
Epirus and the iEgean. 

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